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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
James Earl Ray
Convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (1928–1998)
James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray fled to London and was captured there. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
National Civil Rights Museum
Motel that was the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum
The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Memphis, Tennessee
City in Tennessee, United States
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most populous in the Southeast, and the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)